This is a pretty recent video about this topic so this comment is kinda like a tip. If this video doesn't work for someone or only partly worked: the problem might be with your onedrive trying to sync with your computer files (especially if you don't have enough space to upload all files to onedrive either). I had this problem with my completely new laptop and when I moved the exact same image folders to my external hard drive, all problems stopped and my image previews showed without any problems. That's when I noticed I only had this problem with folders that were linked to onedrive. I simply fixed this by uninstalling onedrive completely since I only use google drive anyways and hated seeing constant "you dont have enough space on your onedrive!!" pop ups, but you could try just unsynching onedrive with some folders if you don't want to be this radical lol.

@lol_zaara

2 жыл бұрын

DUDE I LOVE YOU, YOUR COMMENT HELPED ME, I REMEMBERED I HAD DROPBOX AND IT ALWAYS SAID IT WAS FULL SO I JUST UNINSTALLED IT AND IT WORKED!!! NOTHING IN THE VIDEO DID BUT YOU HELPED TYSM

@shungite4720

2 жыл бұрын

That worked me too, thanks. Problem is I always had enough space free on the OneDrive. My problem started after I took my laptop to be scanned by experts because I thought I might have picked up a bad virus. They told told me I had removed it myself but the software they used changed a few little annoying things. I'm going to re install OneDrive and hopefully the problem doesn't start again.

@alexman3567

2 жыл бұрын

Man, you are the BEST!! I'm trying more than 4 hours and nothing works. Such a simple solution! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

@infectingthecrypts

2 жыл бұрын

dude I cannot thank you enough.

@nimmunishan2609

2 жыл бұрын

Man, you're the time saver. I tried so many videos and steps but it's didn't help but your comment does work. I'm really grateful to you.

i tried all the steps and still it didn't fix the thumbnail problem

@freddyfredrickson

2 жыл бұрын

None of the steps worked for me either

@brentkylegutierrez5663

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. My explorer doesn't have that "Always show icons, never thumbnails" 😥 somebody help!

Thank you! had this issue for the past day or so, liked this video and recommended this to others!

Thank you so much! I've looking for an hour and I finally found this!

Your amazing man, keep doing what your doing, appreciate the straight to the point and simple instructions.

Thank you! I have been searching all over for this fix. You are the source of the answer!

Didn't work :/

YAY! It worked! Thank you so much! Your video tutorial is so easy to understand! Great job!

THANK YOU SO MUCH... Im an artist and this has been plaguing my computer for over a year... you just made my life so much easier! Much appreciated! Will like and share!

Thanks for leaving the cut and paste for Command prompt it worked for me but I had to restart computer to find that out. I am delighted!

THANK YOU! the command prompt description help me a million!!!

Thank you! The Command Prompt solution restored my thumbnails after all the other attempts failed 👍

Exactly what I needed. Thanks, bro.

None of these worked, but thanks for trying. I've also noticed that my thumbnails sometimes disappear when Windows has an update waiting to be installed. They return once updated and restarted. No idea why they've all disappeared now, though.

@ironknightzero

2 жыл бұрын

@@claysonantoons3142 Didn't work for me. The thumbnails appear, then the green loading bar (in the address bar) starts running towards completion then the thumbnails disappear

@rainbowfrog7420

2 жыл бұрын

could also be that your OS partition is almost full, which was the case for me!

@mrcash69

2 жыл бұрын

@@rainbowfrog7420 Thank you so much. You saved me!!

@sriramsriram5015

Жыл бұрын

@@claysonantoons3142 Wow...✨ Thanks buddy ! It's worked 💥❤️

@safetoplay

Жыл бұрын

None of these tips worked for me either. My files were in DropBox and I thought to transfer them to OneDrive. So, when moving the files, thumbnail appeared. And when I moved the file back, it remained. For me the problem seems to be somehow related to coud services... Dunno, but his is how I got it working. : )

This has been driving me nuts for months, thank you.

dude, after many tuts and threads, i finally found this vid, thx so much man!

Thank you so much sir 🥺 Been having a hard time guessing which picture is which from among the image icons. I finally fixed my thumbnail-not-showing problem because of your straightforward and easy-to-follow instructions. More power to you sir. ☺️

your instructions are very simple... i've solved my problem and already subscribed to your channel...thank you very much

@WindowsChimp

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou 👍

man, i was starting to just get used to not having thumbnails and then i was just at my breaking point, im so glad i found this .. bot tutorial since it fixed it. i probably disabled them by accident when doing performance stuff

The command prompt worked the best thank you 😊 🙏🏻😊🙏🏻

Eyy it worked, Thanks man!

Dude, you're a god. The first fix fixed my issue. I LOVE YOU

this was very helpful, for me it was on the system settings because i was running the ultimate performance power plan, thanks

Amazing! Thanks for saving my time! Liked!

Thanks man, the first method worked for me.

@WindowsChimp

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help

Thank you so much! Working now.

In my Win 10 Pro 64bit, all thumbnails show except for 60 fps and above footage That is HEVC clips dont show thumbnails, whereas even my Win 7 shows it correctly. Any ideas plz ?

OMG that was an easy fix! Thank you! Got a subscriber!

Cache Clearing worked thank you so much

You made my day After so much trying to figure out the issue Just restarting windows explore was the solution, it's a lag, Thx Man 🤜🤛

Thank you so much! You're a lifesaver!

is the fact that I use DR folder/ File marker the reason that I do enable to show thumbnails but it either will not or changes back on its own . Like now I have it enabled correct but thumbnails are not showing OR is it being difficult because I uninstalled Micro photos/ vid editor and just about al l Micro apps and installed my own ?

this really did help me thank you very much sir

thank you this video really help me out a lot

Thank you! Restarting windows explorer fixed my issue

Amazing!!!! This was so helpful.... and i only got 40 seconds in to your video and it is now fixed on my computer!!!!! Thanks SOOOOOOOO much!!!! I have subscribed and have saved the video for just in case next time.........Muah, Kiss kiss from Calgary, Alberta!!!

@KoenfuPanda

2 жыл бұрын

idem ditto

Thank you, I really appreciate the video.

My issue is not all of my video thumbnails are missing only seemingly being MP3 and MP4 files either from SFM or downloaded from KZread with other videos actually having thumbnails

hey, i got problem where the perfomance option can't be change to custom mode, it always changes back to let windows decide...., pls help

THANKS ! THIS HELPED A LOT!

I have tried all ways but still it does not work. Is there a possible problem with my OS?

@Resdep2001

2 жыл бұрын

same here, i did everythingm did a reset and icons still shows

I have a different problem. My thumbnails are showing fine, but when I copy my files and paste them to my backup external hard drive, the copies of these folders no longer have the thumb nails. They still have their thumb nails on the original files on the first hard drive, but the backup copies do not have them on the external hard drive. It seems like copying them over does not copy the thumb nails. Any advice? As I don't want to re-apply the thumb nails all over again, there's a lot of them...

ThankYou So Much Sir, Your Efforts are appreciatable and Helping, Liked your Video with Hounour. Your 1st method helped me, ThankYou I pray for you keep going further and get Success.

what a hero my dude.. you saved me so much time!!

so... what if none of these worked? I tried all steps and am still not seeing thumbnails. If it's a folder I haven't opened in a while, I'll see the thumbnails, then I'll see them slowly disappear one by one.

i dont know if i can fix this but all my .rif files have the icon as corel painter essentials 7. I had tried opening one of my drawings into corel painter but i had accidentally chosen to always open .rif files in corel painter and now all of the art thumbnails are just the corel painter icon. I do not know how to fix it because i have tried to undo the always open in corel painter, but that hasn't worked because it still opens in it. If anyone has any tips or a way to fix it, please reply, thank you

it worked! thank you very much !

The only one that works for me is the very last one, but I have to redo it every three days or so. Is there any way to make it a more permanent fix?

I'm on the latest winver 1417 21H2 but my windows 10 search on taskbar keeps reverting to light mode and displaying broken program icons , any remedies?

Good video, but these tips did not work for me. What did fix it: Go to the folder with missing thumbnails, in the top-right search box type "*.jpg", wait for all thumbnails to refresh, clear search box

Only Images and MOV movie files are showing thumbnails but not showing for Mp4 video files...plz sir help me.

especially when i have new videos ....do i need to follow this video to fix the problem?

got the problem fixed in just 20 seconds because of your straight-forward instructions and no stylish intros. I used to find the assignments by photos after photos which was time consuming but no I can find desired assignment just by a glance. AMAZING MAN, APPRECIATED IT, KEEP GROWING :)

it helped! thanks a bunch!

This is all great but I still have video and pictures that came from my cell phone to my laptop and they will not show thumbnail. I also took one of the videos and loaded it to my software to edit it and it plays sound but I have no picture! If I click on the video in the picture file folder it will open and play no problem but no thumbnails.

I have tried everything and none worked EXCEPT cleaning thumbnail cache. Thank you so much.

What if thumbnails are showing just fine within the folder, but the computer shows icons "hanging out of" or previewing folders?

Bro thank u so much this helped me so much🙏🙏🙏

Command prompt wouldn't go through, say's there's no /s Edit: I uninstalled OneDrive and my music mp3 thumbnails came back, but my video and image thumbnails are still blank. Final edit! Ok so after uninstalling OneDrive and restarting my computer I opened file explorer options and clicked restore defaults and reset folders and now 99% of my thumbnails are back! Idk what's wrong with the few files that are still blank but this is still WAY better than them all being blank.

@Blunttingzz

2 жыл бұрын

this is the answer!!!! stupid onedrive

thank you so very much it worked like a charm👌👍

after connected my mi phone to my laptop with usb cable , tap the 'transfer file', then back to file explorer at laptop, tap the DCIM, then camera, i can see the picture files, but those files have no thumbnail. please help me, thanks. for info, i connect my same laptop to my other mi phone. i can see the thumbnails at file explorer.

All of this don't work to me. When I click view large icon it don't show but for medium icon it show. What's that mean? Is my laptop have virus ?

GRACIAS, MUY UTIL TUS CONSEJOS

So simple thankyou

How about some MP4 video files don't show any thumbnail (mostly video created by video editor), while other MP4 videos do.

Thanks, I wish I found you an hour ago. What was happening was my Thumbnails were not being removed when I did disk cleanup. Only a few of them were removed each time I ran disk cleanup. I had to run disk cleanup several time to remove all the thumbnails and then my jpegs displayed...........thanks a bunck.

Thank you for your tutorial

You're Outstanding! i thought i lost my homework by this bug! thank you msn

Its showing in some folders that - this folder is empty, when infact there are videos and mp3 files etc in the folder

great video. Thank you

thank good vid very helpful problem sloved in one min

first option worked twice. but it keeps reverting after a while. this time none of the options work. any ideas?

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy it worked thanks man❤️

thank you man you help me a lot

in my system only PNG image thumbnail not showing rest all format showing pls advice

Hello, already try all tutorial but don't work.. thumbnail picture is oke, but video thumbnail not ... This problem occurred after downgrade windows 11 to Windows 10. So frustated me, please help me.. thanks

It worked thank you so so much.

thanks man you were a real help

thnks u solve my problem in just 2 min

AWESOME!! TY!

yes, it fixed my issue. Thanks a bunch

thank you good man keep up the work

finally fixed... thanks a lot Sir :)

how do you do this in Windows 11? Image preview isn't showing "in the top of file explorer".

@tammywideman3884

2 жыл бұрын

@Alpha_Editz2 this isnt working for me either

You saved my life. Thanks a lot

What do you suggest if these fixes didn't fix my issue?

Helpful information

ok, I tried all the methods that is shown on the video. But I'm still having issues with the thumbnails not showing. Some thumbnails does show, but I have half the other thumbnails not showing. does that mean the files is corrupted or lost that it can't show the thumbnail. I want to clean them but I do not have MalewareFox, Does Mcafee counts as a maleware cleanup.

@larrylittle5592

2 жыл бұрын

Same with me.

@razhkumaarrazh5399

2 жыл бұрын

same here man. I think after i have installed some screen recording software, it might have changed some registry files but still searching for answers. Let me know if you dig up something

@Pedram_Aphotic

2 жыл бұрын

any results? tried 10 methods...nothing is working ... :{

@acroso2471

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pedram_Aphotic sometimes when you have a windows update pending or still not downloaded u will need to do the update and restart ur pc

@safetoplay

Жыл бұрын

None of these tips worked for me either. My files were in DropBox and I thought to transfer them to OneDrive. So, when moving the files, thumbnail appeared. And when I moved the file back, it remained. For me the problem seems to be somehow related to coud services... Dunno, but his is how I got it working. : )

None of these work for me. I have an Acer Aspire 5 Windows 10. I tried restarting, changing options, updating windows, etc. I'm tired of always having a problem with laptop(s).

Thank you so much for the video

thank u maan u helpd me so muuch!!!

All the stuff in the video was good stuff, but it didn't fix my issue. My issue was that disk space on C: was low (less than 300 MB) and so no icons were shown or cached. After cleaning up the disk, it started working again. Anyway, loved the taskkill, delete, start explorer script.

@truearmy1953

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Klaus! Reading your comment saved me form re-installing windows. I was thinking why my thumbnails are not showing even when the Settings checkboxes are visibly accurate.

I have tried all your suggestions a few weeks ago but no luck. All was OK until around 12th June after an up date for my new HP which was purchased 1st May and All in One, 64 bit, running Windows 10, 21H1. I take a lot of videos and put some on my KZread channel so this is a problem I could do without! Thumbnails show on jpegs but not on my video clips. I have tried other suggestion and as the problem does not seem to be the computer but a Windows problem. No one seems to have the answer. I have been making videos since 2011 and never had a problem until this one one showed its head last June. Thank you for all the suggestions and if you know of any other to solve this thumbnail hitch, please let me know. Kind regards, Julie.

@ABSAL0NN

2 жыл бұрын

Same is happening with me

@safetoplay

Жыл бұрын

None of these tips worked for me either. My files were in DropBox and I thought to transfer them to OneDrive. So, when moving the files, thumbnail appeared. And when I moved the file back, it remained. For me the problem seems to be somehow related to coud services... Dunno, but his is how I got it working. : )

@bawaramindersinghbhalla

Жыл бұрын

@@safetoplay same here. nothing is working. jpgs show but mp4s don't. need a fix. no idea how!

how to fix this one sir... whenever I move my floating windows..the outline thing of the floating window,s the only following my cursor and the body stays but when I let it go it just teleported inside of the outline thing..

thanks you so so so so so so much it worked finally i tried other videos but they told some softwares but you did not thanks alot it also worked for me thanks

My thumbnails mysteriously disappeared. I have followed all your methods and the thumbnails are still not showing. Any other suggestions or advice?

Thank you! This worked

yoy deserve 5 stars not only because you solve the problem because i hear same steps from others and still dont understanding them your method in speach and video is fantastic and simple i from Egypt and English is not my language but i was still able to got all u said in this video thanks a lot

Tried all of them, only worked for SOME videos, but not all of them, they had thumbnails yesterday, now all of sudden they don't. Is there something else i can try?

@taj-007

3 жыл бұрын

Same here bro

@taj-007

3 жыл бұрын

Did you find any solution ?

@Lensoh

3 жыл бұрын

same

thanks you you saved my life !!!